Never Logged Out Quotes

“Sometimes when you re-read old arguments that occurred over text, you might end up feeling just as angry as you were when they first happened. The human ability – the human compulsion – to forget the exact angry words exchanged during interpersonal conflicts is actually essential to resolving those conflicts, because allowing the words, and hence their impact, to fade over time brings us closer to resolution and moving on. Digital archives preclude such possibilities entirely.”
― Ms Ria Chopra, Never Logged Out: How the Internet Created India's Gen Z

“It has always been a conscious, fundamentally human choice to remember some things, to keep reminders and save keepsakes, to store mementos in a little box on the top shelf in our room and take it down once every year to dust and laugh fondly over. Parallelly, it is a conscious, fundamentally human choice to strive to not remember some things, to throw away old cards, to return old gifts, to refuse to wear a certain colour or go to a certain part of town because it reminds us too much of something that hurts. But I keep circling back to a key question: what happens to us when the internet starts making these choices for us?”
― Ria Chopra, Never Logged Out: How the Internet Created India's Gen Z